Alpesh Modi
Director Engineering at True Sparrow
Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolAlpesh Modi is a Director of Engineering based in Pune with over a decade of product development leadership at True Sparrow, the studio behind notable consumer and Web3 products like Fab, Pepo, OST, and Moxie. He combines hands-on backend engineering and QA expertise with strategic product delivery, having shipped complex systems from ecommerce platforms and recommendation engines to live streaming, payments, and token-enabled social apps. Alpesh is an active open-source contributor who has strengthened the security and robustness of widely used libraries such as sanitize-html by fixing edge-case HTML parsing bugs and adding regression tests. Known for turning early ideas into scalable production products, he blends deep technical ownership with a product-first mindset and experience operating across startups and client engagements. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who prioritizes reliability and long-term maintainability in fast-moving projects.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
B.E., Computer science, B.E., Computer science at C.K.PithawalaK.K.Gothi High School
Gujarati, Hindi
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Github Skills (7)
html10
javascript10
testing10
security9
nodejs9
cpu6
cicd4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
apostrophecms/sanitize-html
Sep 2022 - Oct 2022
Clean up user-submitted HTML, preserving whitelisted elements and whitelisted attributes on a per-element basis. Built on htmlparser2 for speed and tolerance
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / QA Engineer
Back-end Developer / QA EngineerContributions:8 commits, 5 PRs, 17 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Alpesh primarily contributed to improving the robustness and reliability of the `sanitize-html` library. Their work involved identifying and addressing edge cases in HTML parsing, such as handling malformed tags and unclosed elements. They added new test cases to ensure backward compatibility and prevent future regressions, particularly when upgrading dependencies like `htmlparser2`. The user also refactored the code to enhance the security of the library.
speedelementstolerancejavascriptclean
ostdotcom/ost-block-scanner
Jan 2019 - Apr 2020
OST Block Scanner parses Ethereum-based chains and stores data in DynamoDB
Contributions:2 releases, 30 commits, 39 PRs in 1 year 2 months
scannerethereumostchainsdynamodb
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